A space crash

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it in June 1997. It was the worst collision in the history of space flight and it sent Mir spinning out of control. Michael was one of the three astronauts who had to try to repair the damage and get the space station back on course. In 2016 he told Alex Last about their ordeal.

This programme is a rebroadcast.

Photo: Mir Space Station. Credit: Getty Images.

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds.
0:29.2	Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me
0:38.0	Alex Last. All this week we've been looking back at stories of space
0:42.1	exploration to mark 50 years since the Apollo 13
0:45.8	mission almost ended in tragedy. In June 1997 the mere space station was involved in the worst collision in the history of man spaceflight.
0:56.0	In 2016 I spoke to Michael Foll, one of the astronauts on board. We have a go straight mission and lift off of this space shuttle Atlantis
1:07.0	maintaining America's constant presence in space.
1:10.0	This is a special mission for Michael Foll. He's flown three times before but on this
1:15.2	particular flight of course he will be staying on board the Mir space station.
1:19.8	I ended up on the Mir space station in 1997.
1:23.8	Michael Foll was a British American astronaut with NASA.
1:27.7	He trained in Russia for over a year
1:30.0	to spend months on board the Russian space station Mir.
1:34.0	Well, my biggest ineptitude in school was speaking foreign languages.
1:39.0	And so when I was told I was going to have to live on the Mira Space Station
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